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Get in

Trains run from Sulmona and the bus stops on the way from Rome to Scanno.

Coming from Sulmona there are about seven local buses a day.

Get around

Bugnara is small enough to walk around.

See

Church of SS. Rosario. Dates from 1602 in the late baroque style beautiful friezes, stuccoes and relief ceilings.

Streets and alleyways. Bugnara is steep and full of narrow pedestrian streets. Here you can see Bugnara's medieval origins with an incredible patchwork layering of stone and cement.

Palazzo Ducale (Fortezza dello Scorpione). This enormous palace consists of imposing buildings started around the 11th Century. The impressive fortifications surround a courtyard where one can see the various stages of its development, including an impressive clock tower. Restoration of the palace is in the works, with a rumoured cooking school to be housed there.

Small streets and alleyways

Do

Walk about, have a coffee in the Piazza.

Buy

Market stalls in the Piazza, wait for the vegetable, meat and fish trucks.